{"product_id":"honored-guest","title":"Honored Guest","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn short stories \"so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), Joy Williams explores the various ways we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss, offering a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautiful.... Unsettling.... [Contains] among the best American short stories.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. And all of her characters are richly, idiosyncratically alive, in circumstances at once supremely peculiar and strangely like our own.","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48829144170701,"sku":"9781400095520","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_4eb36f9b-01dd-448a-a651-c85e9df0fbf4.jpg?v=1790198128","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/honored-guest","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}